Gerhard Fasol, Eurotechnology Japan

Dr. Gerhard Fasol has worked in and with the academic, research, and business communities of Japan’s high-tech sector for over 25 years. Dr. Fasol is the founder of Eurotechnology Japan, a technology-focused business development, strategy, and M&A advisory and implementation firm.

Previously, Gerhard was a faculty member of the Electrical Engineering department of Tokyo University, and was one of the first foreigners to build an international research group in Japan. In addition, Gerhard was the first non-Japanese to complete a “Sakigake” research project at Japan’s Science and Technology Development Corporation.

Before coming to Japan, he was a manager of Hitachi’s Cambridge Research Laboratory; a permanent faculty member in the physics department at the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University; a director of studies and teaching fellow at Trinity College; and a member of the scientific staff of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart.